WK Kellogg Co. has revealed when it plans to lay off the remaining workers at its production plant in Omaha.
The company that makes such well-known cereal brands as Fruit Loops and Frosted Flakes announced plans to close the plant at 96th and F streets, which opened in 1942, nearly two years ago, in August 2024. At the time, it said it would start phasing out production in late 2025 and close the plant in 2026.
According to a letter sent last week to the Nebraska Department of Labor, the remaining 450 or so employees will lose their jobs starting in late July, with approximately 100 workers set to be laid off between July 20 and Aug. 3. The remaining employees will lose their jobs between Aug. 4 and Aug. 18.
WK Kellogg said in the letter that all the employees will be receiving severance.
A company spokesperson said its giant manufacturing complex, which spans nearly 900,000 square feet over three buildings and is valued at nearly $24 million, will be put up for sale.
The WK Kellogg layoff will be the second-largest in Nebraska in at least the past three years, topped only by the Tyson Foods shutdown in Lexington earlier this year, which cost more than 3,000 people their jobs.
Both layoffs come in the state’s manufacturing sector, which as of August had shed more than 5,000 jobs compared with a year ago, according to the Nebraska Department of Labor.